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Lucian Freud


Born
in Berlin, Germany
December 08, 1922

Died
July 20, 2011

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Lucian Michael Freud was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Freud got his first name "Lucian" from his mother in memory of the ancient writer Lucian of Samosata. His family moved to England in 1933, when he was 10 years old, to escape the rise of Nazism. He became a British naturalized citizen in 1939. From 1942 to 1943 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He served at sea with the British Merchant Navy during the Second World War.

His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alien
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Lucian Freud: 1996-2005

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The Artist's Eye: Lucian Freud

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“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.”
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“The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.”
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“When I'm painting people in clothes I'm always thinking very much of naked people, or animals dressed.”
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